My new Album 'SEROTONIN' is out now: https://armada.lnk.to/Serotonin

Head agancy (Worldwide)
Dusted Decks
office@flicflacmusic.com

North-Amrica (CA,US,ME)
Jake Truen
Jake@Jarjourco.com

Switzerland (CH)
Houseartists
daniel@houseartists.ch

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Pop-like Deep House beats mixed with a tropical touch – that’s FlicFlac!
Like no other DJs, Max and Kevin, two lads from Vienna, mix together catchy themes with danceable rhythms.
Milky Chance, Vance Joy, Bedouin Soundclash - FlicFlac have been invited to give these and uncountable other pieces more their own unique style. With over 160,000 followers, FlicFlac made a name for themselves as producers. Moreover, they landed 1st of the Soundcloud Deep House Charts. And, their DJ sets are very popular, indeed, too. Alongside current hits, they celebrate their very own special tunes together with that electrified audience that love their pieces. Not only have they scored high at the big festivals such
Ever After CA, SonneMondSterne, Germany, Touch The Air, Switzerland,
Amsterdam Live On Stage, Netherlands, or Reperkusound, France. They also have enthused the critical crowds at the club scene worldwide.
On their DJ tour, these two young Austrians performed at a large number of renowned clubs in Germany, Brazil, Thailand, Canada, France, Malta and others. After taking a short break from studio work they will be back in summer 2016 with new stuff. So, don’t miss their new tracks performed in their proven style.

BOOKINGS, MUSIC, PRESS:
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Downtown Party Network might once have been a short yet magical period of New York City nightlife. Today the name stands for music from another side of the world - Lithuania. An entity combined of experiences, influences, events, trips, and adventures in music that have come together during the last 20 years.

Downtown Party Network’s music has been signed by german Get Physical Music and Dirt Crew Recordings, british Futureboogie and Anjunadeep, belgian Eskimo Recordings and australian Future Classic to name a few. The releases have been favorited by DJ Harvey, Dixon, Laurent Garnier, Groove Armada, Tensnake, Ame, Jamie Jones, Sasha.

‘Days Like These’ by Downtown Party Network released on legendary Eskimo Recordings back in 2009 became a dancefloor destroyer, hitting record shops’ charts and being played by countless amount of djs all around the world.

‘Space Me Out’, released in October 2013 by Silence Music, became one of the most charted tracks on Resident Advisor in 2013. Mario Basanov, Hannes Fischer and Musk accompanied the original track with brilliant remixes. Each of them received a significant amount of attention, as well as a melodramatic music video that was filmed in spooky Lithuanian nature. A year later, a new version of ‘Space Me Out’ was revamped and presented exclusively on ‘Deep House Amsterdam’ just before Amsterdam Dance Event and a brand new remix of the worldwide hit, crafted by the legendary producer Ewan Pearson. 

In the last years DPN had his shows in New York, San Fransisco, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sydney, Shanghai, Singapore, Dubai, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Bangkok, Seoul, Mexico City, Jakarta, London, Berlin, Bali,  Bucharest, Ho Chi Minh, etc.

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For Rune Reilly Kölsch, Kompakt has become a great label to call home. In 2013 the German imprint celebrated 20 years of record releases at the cutting edge of electronic music, championed in June by one of the most genre re-defining albums and personal music projects for an era: Kölsch’s landmark long player, ‘1977’.

A melodic autobiography on black wax, the Kölsch project has seen 36/37-year-old Rune take stock of a diverse and successful production career and draw upon his own personal beginnings: a nostalgia for childhood, family, friends and the confusion of applying his split-cultural heritage to what it means to think of ‘home’. As Rune freely admits, “being half Irish, half German and living in Denmark – it was all one big messy period of my life.” 

Born to hippie parents in the freetown of Christiania (a commune-like autonomous borough of the Danish capital Copenhagen) his childhood was spent surrounded by creativity. His mother was an artist whose family had roots in German politics and his father a singer songwriter who travelled through Asia playing music in the early 70's. Kölsch, however, did miss out on building friendships and found solace in making up “this imaginary world that I would spend days in,” before the family moved to Germany – a period of memories, relations and characters from which ‘1977’ derives its titles.

For Rune, the tracks he began building from 2010 took in this personal reflection, his being “completely locked in to reminiscing about what shaped me as a kid and into the individual that I am now” – contemplating his unique past to form the brickwork of ‘1977’, one of the most future-facing techno albums of recent years.

Influenced by hip hop, pop and the incredible legacy of Jeff Mills and Derrick May, Rune started producing in 1995, embarking on a string of success stories. In 2003 he released the multi-million selling, saxophone-infused ‘Calabria’, that saw collaboration requests pouring in from artists as diverse as Nicki Minaj, Shakira and Flo Rida. He then set up Tattoorecs – releasing pioneering underground tracks with no titles, just tattoos for artwork, that garnered critical acclaim and support from minimal and techno trailblazers such as Sven Väth, Richie Hawtin, Magda, Tiefschwarz and Ricardo Villalobos.

This appreciation of the complete musical spectrum has gifted Rune with a devotion to groove and melodics and with it the dexterity to input real creative change to the genres he reveres, not least his beloved techno. “2010 was the year of the ketamine house wave, where the music was 118 bpm and everything was extremely boring”, reflects Rune. “I wanted some melodic techno, some energy back in this scene. People needed the energy to express themselves and go crazy for a bit.”

This notion faced opposition, even from within Rune’s close circles. But it was Kompakt founder Michael Mayer who had the insight to see what Kölsch was trying to achieve. Rune’s conviction that vibrations and melodics are the key to human response had tipped the balance, underlined by his experience as a hip hop DJ where he “needed something to catch me and drag me in. And that’s what techno should do!” Here too he drew on his love of Jeff Mills and Derrick May, recalling how “they used to make mistakes all the time. It would be a big mash of all kinds of stuff, but at least something was happening. That’s what I was missing and that’s what I’m trying to change with the Kölsch project.”

The result is ‘1977’, a personal collection of dancefloor destroyers that are continuing to send clubs and festivals across the globe into melodic supernova. Take this video of Kölsch’s set at Belgium’s I Love Techno festival, one of Rune’s 2013 highlights, where “people were doing sit downs, singing along to all the tracks”. Watch it. It puts the hairs up on the back of your neck. “The response was overwhelming,” said Rune in a recent interview with Mixmag (who named Kölsch as one of their ‘Stars Of 2013’), as “when you think about it, it was just a bunch of childhood memories with a kickdrum underneath.” 

Elsewhere he’s ripped up the airways with an acclaimed Essential Mix for Pete Tong on BBC Radio 1, delivered his incendiary soundscape to Singapore’s world-renowned ZoukOut Festival, boomed his live show through the heaving basement of London’s XOYO and played the hallowed Space Terrace – in his words “a boyhood dream since I started going to Ibiza in 1999. That was what I wanted from life!” So opening Amnesia in 2014 with Joris Voorn will be a bonus then...

While these are reasons enough to keep the beaming smile beneath Kölsch’s trademark black fedora, his humility remains just as striking. While tracks like ‘Goldfisch’ have taken pivotal positions in the set lists of world class DJs from across the dance music spectrum – traversing the underground with Seth Troxler, while simultaneously providing credible new euphoric highs for the likes of Axwell – Rune remains joyously down to earth. All despite producing, with ‘1977’, an album that has crossed as many cultural and musical boundaries as his own childhood past.

From the face-twisting melodic drive of ‘Opa’ and ‘Bappedekkel’, to the chord-surfing piano groove of ‘Der Alte’ and the euphoric crescendos of ‘Lorely’, ‘Oma’ and ‘All That Matters’ (all hits in different countries), the fact remains that whether in your living room, on the dancefloors of the world’s greatest parties, or simply in your headphones on your way home, Kölsch’s ‘1977’ has re-defined techno and become an achievement that speaks for itself. 

Words: Phil Dudman – Clubs & Live Music Editor, Mixmag


Quality will find its way.
Booking: jane@this-saturday.com

Find more stuff by Berni&me on his recently upgraded Account: http://soundcloud.com/bu-rns

Listen to my latest official Podcast for http://simonandme.com/ here: http://soundcloud.com/simonandme/a-professional-dreamer

- A Professional Dreamer (Hoochi) - 

In Middle School, a huge guy passing by mentioned i would look like "Ho-Chi-Minh"... my friends loved it, starting to call me like that. Some people knew me for more than two years before they realized that this actually wasn't my real name. So i did not choose this name by myself, i just tried to make it look less scary over the years. 

My earliest memory connected with Electronic Music is sitting in the back of a tiny Opel listening to "Iron Eden" by The Gate (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdoBR09q4so) back in the 90's. My friend had spent all his money on this new Subwoofer, placed directly behind the place i was sitting on. It was my first time experiencing this kind of music at a volume it is supposed to be heard. You can imagine that my 15 year old mind literally was blown. ;)
Even if i am open to every Genre and enjoy to listen to all kinds of music (as long as its really music and not purely driven by Greed), Electronic Music was the main focus since then. People started to use strange words, trying to categorize different types of Electronic Music. For me personally, that makes not much sense. I prefer to call it just "Electronic Music"(even if the Term is outdated again, as the Music isn't purely electronic anymore - or never was). Maybe i am just sick and tired of having everything well sorted - i grew up in Germany. :)
 
Mixing or doing music (which always means to create something like an "emotional pattern") always fascinated me. I never made it to start doing it myself though. 
Finally i decided to make the first steps, starting with digital Equipment. Most certainly too late to make a living out of it, but hopefully still in time to make some people smile.

I hope you enjoy listening to the stuff i uploaded. My apologies for bad mixing skills.

"I refuse to compromise or follow trends when it comes to my sound. My music is purely for entertainment." - A Guy Called Gerald

Listen to less recent Mixes on http://www.mixcloud.com/hoochi/

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Monday 03 July, 2017 United Stripes, Bloomingdale, Bloemendaal, Netherlands: unitedstripes.nl

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